Samuel Jackson Is Creepy as Hell in the First Trailer for Shyamalan’s Glass
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Ever since the final scene spooled out in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2016 return to form, Split, audiences have been beside themselves with excitement. Why? Well, because said scene unexpectedly featured Bruce Willis, reprising his role as David Dunn from the 2000 film Unbreakable, arguably Shyamalan’s finest directorial effort. The original film was a brilliant deconstruction of the superhero genre that was largely misunderstood at the time by audiences who were expecting a more conventional follow-up to Shyamalan’s breakthrough, The Sixth Sense. But as the years have gone by, it’s Unbreakable that has emerged as the second crown jewel in Shyamalan’s resume … and now we finally have a trailer for the sequel, combining the worlds of Unbreakable and Split into one.
At first, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the below trailer is the beginning to a new season of American Horror Story, given that it features a perturbed-looking Sarah Paulson, apparently ready to start bawling. However, as it turns out, her character of Dr. Ellie Staple is instead a researcher or psychiatrist who specifically deals in cases where people think they have superhuman powers—which includes David Dunn, Split’s Kevin Crumb and the titular “Mr. Glass.” And indeed, Paulson has all three lined up in front of her, for what will surely be an engrossing back-and-forth.